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Poetry. Vocabulary. Alliteration : Repetition of initial consonant sounds Allusion : A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art Ballad : A song-like poem that tells a story Blank Verse : Poetry written in unrhymed, ten-syllable lines. Concrete Poem :
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Poetry Vocabulary
Alliteration: • Repetition of initial consonant sounds • Allusion: • A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art • Ballad: • A song-like poem that tells a story • BlankVerse: • Poetry written in unrhymed, ten-syllable lines
ConcretePoem: • A poem with a shape that suggests its subject • FigurativeLanguage: • Writing that is not meant to be taken literally • FreeVerse: • Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter • Haiku: • A three-lined Japanese verse
Imagery: • A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses • LyricPoem: • Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker • Metaphor: • A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else
Mood: • The feeling created in the reader by a literary work • NarrativePoem: • A story told in verse • Onomatopoeia: • The use of words that imitate sounds • Personification: • A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
Refrain: • A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem • Repetition: • The use, more than once, of any element of language • Rhyme: • Repetition of sounds at the end of words • RhymeScheme: • A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhythm: • Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language • Simile: • A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas • Stanza: • A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit My love is like a red rose.
Poetry Humor & Poetry
Humor • Humor in poetry can arise from a number of sources: • Surprise • Exaggeration • Bringing together of unrelated things • Most funny poems have two things in common: • Rhythm • Rhyme
Using more spirited language makes humorous situations even more humorous “The Porcupine” By Ogden Nash Any hound a porcupine nudges Can’t be blamed for harboring grudges. I know one hound that laughed all winter At a porcupine that sat on a splinter. Rhythm & Rhyme
If you take away the rhythm and rhyme, the humor vanishes. Any hound that touches a porcupine Can’t be blamed for holding a grudge I know one hound that laughed all winter long At a porcupine that sat on a piece of wood
Lewis Carroll1832-1898 • Born in England • Wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland • Wrote Through the Looking Glass • His life was quiet and uneventful, but in works like Father William, he found escape from his serious work into a delightfully zany, topsy-turvy world that still amuses children old and young.
“Father William”Page 400 • In this poem, a young man questions his father about some rather unusual behavior. • Have you ever asked someone what they were doing and received an explanation that made very little sense at all?
You Are Old, Father William "You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak-- Pray, how did you manage to do it?" "In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." "You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose-- What made you so awfully clever?" "I have answered three questions, and that is enough," Said his father. "Don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs. "You are old, father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head -- Do you think, at your age, it is right? "In my youth," father William replied to his son, "I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again." "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, And you have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door -- Pray what is the reason for that?" "In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, "I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment -- one shilling a box -- Allow me to sell you a couple?"
Limericks • A limerick is a poem of five lines • The first, second, and fifth lines have three rhythmic beats and rhyme with one another. • The third and fourth lines have two beats and rhyme with one another. • They are always light-hearted, humorous poems.
Limericks There once was a man with no hair. He gave everyone quite a scare. He got some Rogaine, Grew out a mane, And now he resembles a bear!
Limerick About a Bee I wish that my room had a floor, I don’t care so much for a door. But this walking around Without touching the ground Is getting to be quite a bore.
Another Limerick There once was a very small mouse Who lived in a very small house, The ocean’s spray Washed it away, All that was left was her blouse!
